A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Scarborough Marsh Wetland Reserve Project
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
Summary:: The 3,100-acre Scarborough Marsh Wildlife Management area, Maine's largest and most renowned salt marsh, is being restored in a 5-phased project, eliminating restrictions of natural tidal flows.
Website:: www.scarboroughmaine.com/marsh/
Contact:: Susan Wilder

Friends of Scarborough Marsh
207-883-6050
swilder@gwi.net

Project Name:: Lick Run Project - Chancellorsville, VA
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia
Summary:: After a year-long struggle to prevent the upzoning of land connected with the 1863 battle of Chancellorsville, preservation groups joined forces with local government to create a battlefield park.
Website:: www.chancellorsville.org
Contact:: Jim Campi
Policy and Communications Director
Civil War Preservation Trust
202-367-1861
jcampi@civilwar.org

Southeastern

Project Name:: Mecklenburg County Ozone Reduction Action Program
Location:: Southeastern: North Carolina
Summary:: Duke Energy is participating in a voluntary ozone reduction action program to help reduce ozone forming air emissions in Mecklenburg County, N.C. during the “ozone season” months.
Contact:: Mark E. Hollis
Director-Environmental Policy
Duke Power
704-373-3726
mehollis@duke-energy.com

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Battle Creek River Watershed Project
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan
Summary:: The Battle Creek River Watershed Project is an effort by landowners, residents, conservation groups, and local, state, and federal agencies to protect the quality of water.
Website:: calhouncd.org/bcriver.pdf
Contact:: Kristine Boley-Morse
Project Coordinator
Calhoun Conservation District
(269) 781-4867
kristine.boley-morse@macd.org

Project Name:: Northern Michigan Conservation and Wildlife Alliance
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan
Summary:: To bring together all hands-on conservation organizations and to introduce them to the public.
Contact:: Doug Truax
Chair
Northern Michigan Wildlife and Conservation Alliance
231-369-2325
dwtruax@acegroup.cc

Project Name:: Bull River Partnership
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: The public-private partnership permanently protected more than 1,800 acres of key wildlife habitat along the Bull River in northwestern Montana.
Website:: www.conservationfund.org
Contact:: Mark W. Elsbree
Vice President
The Conservation Fund, Northwest Region
(208) 726-4419
melsbree@mindspring.com

Project Name:: Flathead Common Ground
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: FCG was formed with the intent to improve wildlife habitat and forest conditions and to simultaneously utilize economically viable timber sales as a tool to help to achieve these objectives.
Website:: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/flatheadforest.html
Contact:: Gary Dahlgren

Flathead National Forest
(406) 758-5269
gdahlgren@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Rehabilitation
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
Summary:: Fishery agencies and organizations are coordinating efforts to gather information on historic spawning rivers and remnant lake sturgeon populations in the Great Lakes.
Website:: www.fws.gov/midwest/sturgeon
Contact:: Henry Quinlan
Lead Biologist for Lake Superior
Ashland Fishery Resources Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
715-682-6185
Henry_Quinlan@fws.gov

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Diablo Trust/Diablo Canyon Rural Planning Area
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: With a goal to provide a model for other rural communities across Arizona, and the West, the project has produced innovative planning methods to help protect the economic value of ranchlands.
Website:: www.diablotrust.org
Contact:: Hadassah Holland Ziegler
Administrative & Program Manager
The Diablo Trust
928-523-0588
info@diablotrust.org

Project Name:: West Branch Restoration Project, Arizona
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: West Branch landowners and Arizona Open Land Trust (now Arizona Land and Water Trust) partnered to restore and enhance wildlife habitat along the West Branch of the Santa Cruz River.
Website:: www.alwt.org
Contact:: Liz Petterson
Project Director
Arizona Land and Water Trust
520-577-8564
lpetterson@alwt.org

Project Name:: Leopard Darter Recovery Plan
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas, Oklahoma
Summary:: The project will facilitate genetic exchange between fragmented populations of the federally threatened leopard darter by reconnecting about 50 river miles.
Contact:: Marcia C. M. de Almeida
Fish Passage Interim Coordinator R9
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
703-358-1941
Marcia_Almeida@fws.gov

Project Name:: Rio Grande Riverpark
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: National Park Service convened the Riverpark Task Force, provided guidance on funding, and then actively engaged the community in trail design, construction, public art and celebrations.
Website:: www.nps.gov/rtca
Contact:: Paul Cusumano
Outdoor Recreation Planner
National Park Service
(505) 988-6093
paul_cusumano@nps.gov

Far West

Project Name:: The Irvine Ranch Land Reserve
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The Irvine Company and partners created a 50,000 acre urban reserve for education, recreation, and conservation, a model for sustainable development.
Website:: www.irvineranch.com/irvineranch/irvineranch.asp
Contact:: Mike O’Connell
Executive Director
Irvine Ranch Land Reserve Trust
949-720-5568
moconnell@irlrtrust.org

Project Name:: Willapa Bay Cooperative Restoration Effort
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: Project partners are cooperatively managing forests across ownership boundaries to maintain the rich biological legacies remaining within this area of southwest Washington.
Website:: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/washington/preserves/art12965.html
Contact:: Tom Kollasch
Ellsworth Creek Forest Manager
The Nature Conservancy of Washington
(503) 325-3896
tkollasch@tnc.org

Project Name:: Palos Verde Blue Butterfly Recovery Program
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The Defense Support Center is working with partners, on its lands, to enhance the only known population of Palos Verdes blue butterflies, and to restore it elsewhere.
Contact:: Mr. Dan Ryan
Stewardship Director
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
310-541-7613 x 203
dryan@pvplc.org

Project Name:: East Bay Creek Restorations
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The East Bay Watershed Center at Merritt College has designed and/or implemented several urban creek restorations, wildfire control and public interpretive installations in the San Francisco Bay Area
Website:: www.merritt.edu/~envst
Contact:: Robin Freeman
Director
Merritt College Watershed Center
510-434-3840
rfreeman@merritt.edu, rfreeman@peralta.edu

Project Name:: Portfields
Location:: Far West: Washington, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts, Southeastern: Florida
Summary:: Multi-agency partnership to assist ports to revitalize waterfront areas, improve marine transportation, and protect and restore critical habitat.
Website:: www.brownfields.noaa.gov
Contact:: David Holst
Program Analyst
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
301-713-2989
dholst@noaa.gov

Project Name:: Spokane District Packer Creek Hydrolic Restoration Project
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: Partners worked together to restore the hydrology and associated wetland complexes of Packer Creek, while still maintaining livestock forage production, wildlife habitat and watershed needs.
Contact:: Todd Thompson
Wildlife Biologist
Bureau of Land Management, Spokane District
509-536-1241
Todd_Thompson@blm.gov

National

Project Name:: Minority and Underserved in Urban Natural Resource Conservation
Location:: National
Summary:: A partnership with the USDA Forest Service to assist minority communities in urban natural resource conservation.
Website:: www.treelink.org/nucfac/
Contact:: Zhu H. Ning
Professor
Southern University
(225)771-2262ext.267
zhu_ning@suagcenter.net

Project Name:: Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment
Location:: National
Summary:: The challenges associated with preparing a 10-Year strategy & implementation plan revolved around striking an acceptable balance between the vastly diverse ideologies of the group members.
Website:: www.fireplan.gov
Contact:: Corbin Newman
Forest Service Coordinator
National Fire Plan
202-205-1332
cnewman02@fs.fed.us

Current Conservation Programs